The Witchblade is a sentient gauntlet， itself the son of The Darkness and Angelus。 The Witchblade possesses humans—typically women—as hosts on Earth。Enter Sara Pezzini the caretaker of the Witchblade which is very much desired by certain men for whom Ian Nottingham is a tool to obtain the might and force of the Witchblade。 Kenneth Irons is the puppet master who wants to obtain the Witchblade for himself and it eats his hand and yet he remains in hope that he will be able to assert his will on th The Witchblade is a sentient gauntlet， itself the son of The Darkness and Angelus。 The Witchblade possesses humans—typically women—as hosts on Earth。Enter Sara Pezzini the caretaker of the Witchblade which is very much desired by certain men for whom Ian Nottingham is a tool to obtain the might and force of the Witchblade。 Kenneth Irons is the puppet master who wants to obtain the Witchblade for himself and it eats his hand and yet he remains in hope that he will be able to assert his will on the possessor of the Witchblade。Sara Pezzini a New York cop does chose to leave the Witchblade but is forced to take back the gauntlet and has in this second time a hard time of controlling the force which is more murderous than before。 And she and the Darkness are targeted for their powers and this time again Jackie Estacado saves them 。This collection stars with an episode of "Tales of the Witchblad #4" and makes reading this volume a bit surprising and left me initially somewhat confused。 The great thing about these new collections are that they are complete and you find the crossovers between the various Top Cow series included which makes the reading far more satisfying。 Looking forward to the next instalments。The art of this series is absolute gorgeous and yes the women look fantastic， which they are evil or heroines， Ian Nottingham is drawn as an absolute dish even Ken Irons is not too shabby。 The art of the Witchblade and Darkness is absolute fabulous which is the purpose for me。 I enjoyed the art in the Top Cow series a lot more than the art in those days from DC & Marvel， MacFarlane's Spiderman being the odd one out。 But then again he launched the brilliant Spawn series。Visually a feast and in story sometimes a bit overwhelming by the large amount of text， but still great comic collection。 。。。more